{"product_id":"queering-urbanism-insurgent-spaces-in-the-fight-for-justice","title":"Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/luminos.185\"\u003ewww.luminosoa.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto learn more\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural assimilation increasingly erases insurgent aspects of these social movements. This gentrification itself leads to queer displacement. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCombining urban history, architectural critique, and queer and trans theories, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueering Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e traces these phenomena through the history of a network of sites in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within that urban landscape, Stathis Yeros investigates how queer people appropriated existing spaces, how they expressed their distinct identities through aesthetic forms, and why they mobilized the language of citizenship to shape place and secure space. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHere the legacies of LGBTQ+ rights activism meet contemporary debates about the right to housing and urban life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003cstrong\u003eIt is challenging to find a book that gives not just an account of a specific place and people but a theory of how queer space works, how it \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ebecomes\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003equeer. This is that book\u003c\/strong\u003e.”—Robert Self, author of \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“This lively and illuminating book provides a new and needed history of San Francisco since the 1960s, tracing how LGBTQ people remade public and private spaces while contesting the bounds of normative citizenship. Moving from SROs to renovated Victorians, lesbian bars to community land grants, \u003cstrong\u003eYeros revives vital questions about how queer and trans communities remake the cities they call home\u003c\/strong\u003e.”—Stephen Vider, author of \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eSpecifications: \u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBy \u003cspan\u003eStathid G. Yeros\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eISBN: \u003cspan\u003e9780520394490\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePublished: Apr. 2, 2024 by University of California Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: FR;\" lang=\"FR\"\u003ePages: 242, Softcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: FR;\" lang=\"FR\"\u003eDimensions: \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 6 x 0.57 x 9 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWeight: 1 lbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-cardui-content a-cardui-uninitialized _about-the-author-card_carouselItemStyles_peekableContent__hWM3i\" data-a-max-height=\"80\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStathis G. 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